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Solar panels don't need to be an environmental desert. They can be tailored to accommodate wildlife.

Researchers have developed transparent solar panels that can be used as glass windows in our homes or even in our ...

A quick rundown of the pros and cons of solar energy for your home.

One process designed to improve the efficiency of these panels actually ends up degrading them over time.

Bees everywhere support this message.

Smartphones might soon power themselves.

For the smart buildings of the future.

Solar energy is on the rise, but how does it really work?

Living solar cells could power medical or environmental sensors. They're fully biodegradable too.

Sounds like a lot, but by comparison with other infrastructure, it's far from being intimidating. 'Let's get to work!'

Solar energy is definitely in fashion nowadays.

Another confirmation that solar energy is moving fast.

Elon Musk has shown plenty of times in the past that he's not afraid to go a bit outside the ...

Ikea made it much easier for British people to green their homes - for a while. Then, after the government ...

On the desk of Seokheun "Sean" Choi sits a 3x3 array that at first glance looks like a lemon squeezer. ...

Sunny states like California, Texas and Florida topped the list of states where rooftop solar could generate the most energy.

Citizens were against installing a solar farm because it would suck all the energy from the sun -- so plants ...

A possible game changer - 120 country alliance spearheaded by India and supported by France has been announced, with the ...

There's an inherent flaw in solar cells: the metal wiring that's quintessential to harnessing the electrons reflects the incoming light, ...

No kidding, Stanford researchers actually showed it's possible to cool solar panels by applying a special coating that reflects some ...

An innovative concentrated solar power design called the "Solar Sunflower" was recently demonstrated by Swiss researchers at Airlight Energy and ...

Only six months ago, a 230-foot strip of road was covered in solar panels in the Netherlands. Since then, some ...

The UK boasts 650,000 solar installations across homes, offices, schools, churches, warehouses, farms, police stations, train stations and even a ...

The most efficient solar cells are those that convert incoming concentrated solar power via lenses, the sort you see on ...

Solar cell technology has improved dramatically over the past couple of year, yet it will be a long time before ...

Researchers at MIT report they've developed a novel material that can absorb almost all incoming wavelengths of light and convert ...

Researchers at University of Sheffield demonstrate a perovskite spray-on solar cell for the first time. Also, this is the first ...

Austrlian researchers have successfully developed transparent, ultra-thin, foldable solar cells.

Photo: greenbag.com Germany has reached a new renewable energy milestone recently after the country announced that on a given day ...

NTU's new Perovskite solar cell can also emit light when electrical current is passed through the material. Photo: Nanyang Technological ...

Every time a new manufacturing or development technology concerning solar cells was introduced, the futurists and tech pundits were quick ...

A British company has developed colored but transparent solar cells which add just 10% to the price of the glass ...

In a fantastic breakthrough in solar energy, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have ...

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Trees employ a fractal structure of branches to twigs to spread a wide array of leaves for maximized sunlight collection. ...

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Germany keeps setting a right example of how renewable energy should be treated by the authorities, as opposed to the ...

We've become so accustomed to the imagery of huge stacks of solar panel arrays stretching across the scorching desert, that ...

If harnessed at a much greater potential than it is now, sunlight might not only become the primary source of ...

Dubbed MBE, after the intricate molecular beam epitaxy process, this device developed by scientists at Sharp Laboratories in Oxford, England, ...

Japan shows us yet again that they are leading the world in terms of renewable energy, in taking a plan ...

It gives me great pleasure to see some points of view the governor of California has; here's what he had ...